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Potato field, Hightstown, New Jersey, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Potato field, where the farm members of this resettled group have the second best crop in the three leading potato counties, according to estimates of the New Jersey Agricultural State College

Homesteaders of the farm group are proud of their straight potato row, Hightstown, New Jersey, 1936
Hightstown, New Jersey. The homesteaders of the farm group are proud of their straight potato row. They have raised very successful crops. The farm was started in 1934

Cabbage cutting and hauling by new Vessey (flat truck) system, Imperial Valley, California, 1937
Cabbage cutting and hauling by new Vessey (flat truck) system, now also used in carrots and lettuce. Imperial Valley, California

Migrants from Delaware picking berries in southern New Jersey, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrants from Delaware picking berries in southern New Jersey

Men working in the potato field, Hightstown, New Jersey, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Hightstown, New Jersey. Factory and field, both to be run on cooperative basis by resettled families at Hightstown. The men are working in the potato field

Filipinos cutting lettuce, Imperial Valley, CA, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Filipinos cutting lettuce. Near Westmorland, Imperial Valley, California]

Mexican picking melons in the Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mexican picking melons in the Imperial Valley, California

Migrant agricultural worker picking potatoes near Shafter, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant agricultural worker picking potatoes near Shafter, California

Potato pickers, near Shafter, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Shafter, California. Potatoes are dug by machines and strewn on the ground as the digger goes down the rows. The picker puts the potatoes into sacks suspended from their waist between their

Harvesting peas requires large crews of migratory labor, Nipomo, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Harvesting peas requires large crews of migratory labor. Nipomo, California

Filipino boy, one of a labor gang, cutting cauliflower near Santa Maria, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Filipino boy, one of a labor gang, cutting cauliflower near Santa Maria, California

Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, CA, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, California. These cotton pickers are being paid seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds

Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, CA, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, California. These cotton pickers are being paid seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds

Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, CA, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, California. These cotton pickers are being paid seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds

Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, California. These cotton pickers are being paid seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds

Filipinos cutting lettuce, near Westmorland, Imperial Valley, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Westmorland, Imperial Valley. Filipinos cutting lettuce

A grandmother washing clothes in a migrant camp, Stanislaus County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
A grandmother washing clothes in a migrant camp. Stanislaus County, California

Filipino boys thinning lettuce, Salinas Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Filipino boys thinning lettuce. Salinas Valley, California

Filipino thinning lettuce, Salinas Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Filipino thinning lettuce. Salinas Valley, California

Loading truck in sugar beet field, near Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Loading truck in sugar beet field. Average wage of field worker: two dollars and fifty cents per day and dinner and supper during topping. Near Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon

Loading a truck in a sugar beet field, Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon. October 1939. Loading a truck in a sugar beet field

Couple digging their sweet potatoes in the fall, Irrigon, Morrow County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Couple digging their sweet potatoes in the fall. Irrigon, Morrow County, Oregon

Gang of Filipino boys thinning lettuce, Salinas Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Gang of Filipino boys thinning lettuce. Salinas Valley, California

Pea pickers at work, San Luis Obispo County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Pea pickers at work. San Luis Obispo County, California

Pea pickers near Calipatria, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Pea pickers near Calipatria, California

500 pea pickers in field of large-scale Sinclair Ranch, near Calipatria, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
500 pea pickers in field of large-scale Sinclair Ranch. Newly planted to peas. Near Calipatria, California

Gang of migratory carrot pullers in field, Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Gang of migratory carrot pullers in field. Wages: fourteen cents per crate of forty eight bunches. Imperial Valley, California

Pea pickers, near Niland, Imperial County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Pea pickers. Wages (1939): one cent per pound. Hamper holds about twenty eight pounds. Near Niland, Imperial County, California

Carrot digger, Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Carrot digger. Imperial Valley, California

Filipino field gang in lettuce, Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Filipino field gang in lettuce. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California. Filipinos work in lettuce but not in peas

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